At the Toronto Film Festival premiere of his ambitious film, Caught by the Tides, pioneering Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke was feeling a bit jittery. “For me, this film is special,” he said through a ...
The famed Chinese director spoke about his latest project at a New York Film Festival event, put on in partnership with Rolex. By Cori Murray “Sorry… Forget this is New York, not Beijing,” laughed Jia ...
Building an elliptical love story around 22 years' worth of footage, Jia's latest revisits some of the most pivotal characters and locations from his previous work. A searching and scattershot ...
The great Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke has made both dramas and documentaries across his award-winning career so far, yet what binds all his movies is a sense that the labels of fiction and ...
About two-thirds of the way into Ash Is Purest White, the latest triumph by Chinese master Jia Zhang-ke, the heroine, Qiao (Zhao Tao, Jia’s regular leading lady), meets a strange man on a train ...